If you’d known before Wednesday night’s Grizz road game against the Portland Trail Blazers that Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum would combine for only 35 points, maybe you’d have thought that was a good sign for the slumping Grizzlies, since Lillard and McCollum typically create an overwhelming share of the Blazers’ offense and have been raining down jumpshots on the Grizzlies since at least the 2015 playoffs, if not before.

Memphis City Council members have rejected gas, water and electric rate hikes proposed by Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division. On three separate 3-7 votes Tuesday, the council voted down the rate hikes to take effect in 2019 and again in 2021 across all three divisions of the publicly owned utility.

The city’s long-range development plan for the next 20 years begins with what is already there, gauges the market and public sentiment and builds from there. A draft of the Memphis 3.0 plan debuted Wednesday on a city website, www.memphis3point0.com.